Family Clay: Make a Mobile

You will learn

Learn new skills with your child and sculpt a mobile or wind chime from clay. Take inspiration from nature and sculpt flora and fauna to build up the scene for your hanging mobile.

Techniques covered include:

Forming clay
Sculpting animals and plants
Joining clay
Adding colour using slips
Using moulds

You will need

This session is for children aged 7-16 and their parent or guardian. No prior pottery experience is needed.

We recommend trimming long nails prior to the session, removing any jewellery, and tying back long hair. A parent or guardian must stay with their child at all times.

Additional Information

The session cost includes all materials, tools, clay and firing of your finished pieces.

We will contact you when your pots are ready to collect from our museum, this can take up to 6 weeks. If you haven’t heard from us within this time, please contact us.

If your child is confident working independently, you can make your own creation by purchasing additional clay, glaze + firing as a £10 add-on.

When attending this event, please drive directly to The Harley Pottery Studio. See map below.

The Harley Pottery Studio

The Harley Foundation is an arts charity which works to create spaces where the imagination can flourish, from artists studios to an award-winning museum.

We run The Harley Pottery Studio, a community space where visitors can work in inspiring surroundings – in an idyllic countryside location and surrounded by practicing artists and makers.

All of our classes are subsidised by the Foundation and generously supported by Nottinghamshire County Council. We work to offer an accessible, affordable place to practice pottery making.

Tutor Profile: Ruth Waller

This course is taught by Ruth Waller.

Ruth is a contemporary textile artist and half of the creative partnership Waller Hewett. Waller Hewett create artwork and installations which combine art, design and craft, and have won them numerous awards including ‘Best in Show’ at the London Craft Fair.

She is a highly experienced tutor and teaches across the Harley Foundation’s education programme.

Image courtesy Ben Boswell